CAT/C/KWT/CO/3
43.
The State party should:
(a)
Ensure that training and educational programmes for law enforcement,
security and prison personnel cover the provisions of the Convention and the absolute
prohibition of torture, as well as professional techniques, including on the need to
respect the principles of necessity and proportionality during police and security
interventions;
(b)
Ensure that judges and judicial personnel are aware of the provisions of
the Convention;
(c)
Ensure that the Istanbul Protocol is made an essential part of the
training for all medical professionals and other public officials involved in the
detention or imprisonment of persons, as well as for personnel involved in the
investigation and documentation of torture;
(d)
Develop and implement specific methodologies to assess the effectiveness
and impact of training and educational programmes provided to law enforcement and
other public officials regarding the provisions of the Convention on the reduction of
the number of cases of torture.
Redress, including compensation and rehabilitation
44.
While noting article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Act No. 17/1960), which
stipulates that the legal system affords every person the opportunity to seek reparation for
damage caused by an offence through courts, the Committee remains concerned at the
continued absence of a specific programme to implement the rights of victims of torture
and ill-treatment to receive adequate reparation and compensation. It is also concerned that
only one case of moral and financial compensation has been cited during the period under
review and at the absence of information on any ongoing reparation programmes (art. 14).
45.
The Committee reiterates its recommendation (see CAT/C/KWT/CO/2,
para. 21) that victims of torture and ill-treatment should have an enforceable right to
redress, including fair and adequate compensation and rehabilitation. The State party
should provide information on the number of requests for redress and compensation
measures, the number granted by courts, as well as on the amounts ordered and
provided in each case. In addition, the State party should provide information on any
reparation programmes, including treatment of trauma and other forms of
rehabilitation provided to victims of torture and ill-treatment during the period under
review.
Follow-up procedure
46.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 12 August 2017,
information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations on a public statement
by the highest State authority condemning the use of torture and ill-treatment,
conditions of detention, the urgent reinstatement of the de facto moratorium on the
application of the death penalty, and the situation of foreign workers (see paras. 13
(a), 22, 26 (a) and 30). In that context, the State party is invited to inform the
Committee about its plans for implementing, within the coming reporting period,
some or all of the remaining recommendations in the concluding observations.
Other issues
47.
The Committee recommends that the State party consider withdrawing its
reservation to article 20 of the Convention as envisaged by its delegation during the
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